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To: DMaA who wrote (13747)	3/13/1998 5:02:00 PM
From: jhild	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

What a good camera it is, to catch my smile from a million miles out. :^) And all for only 50M.

To: DMaA who wrote (13747)	3/14/1998 12:36:00 PM
From: Moonray	Respond to of 22053

More: 10/100 NICs Have The Networking Knack Two years ago it would have been difficult to predict that Fast Ethernet would rise up from the pack and become the de facto standard for high-speed desktop and server connectivity. After all, FDDI, CDDI, ATM and VG-AnyLAN technologies all seemed viable options, but only Fast Ethernet had the market support necessary to drive prices down into the realm of the affordable. Today, you can buy client-side Fast Ethernet NICs for well under $99-if you're willing to do a bit of bargain shopping. You don't have to look far to realize that the desktop NIC market is one of the most competitive markets out there. By far, 3Com Corp. and Intel Corp. dominate the market with nearly 90 percent of the overall market share on NICs. The war between these two giants has made the realm of Fast Ethernet a buyer's market. techweb.com o~~~ O

To: DMaA who wrote (13747)	3/14/1998 2:23:00 PM
From: Moonray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

HDTV Test Causes Interference At Hospitals MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, U.S.A., 1998 MAR 13 (NB) -- By Leonard Lee A test of a high definition television (HDTV) transmission in Dallas knocked out the radio signals from 12 wireless heart monitors at the nearby Baylor University Medical Center. The monitors feed telemetry information from patients recovering from heart surgery to a central nurses' station. At 1:27pm on February 27, the central monitoring unit gave an error message saying it was no longer receiving telemetry signals from the patients. Nurses immediately rushed to verify the status of each patient while technicians set up a backup monitoring system. Using spectrum analyzers, technicians attempted to trace the source of the problem, but were confounded because the interfering signal was intermittent. Over the course of the next few days, engineers tracked the interference to a series of HDTV test broadcasts from nearby WFAA-TV. Steve Juett, senior clinical engineer at BUMC, told Newsbytes that "our supervisor of TV services at Baylor recognized this as the HDTV signal because he had seen a newscast announcing the HDTV test." According to Juett, several other area hospitals were similarly affected. The Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council contacted the FCC and FDA to inform them of the problem. An FCC spokesman told Newsbytes the problem is not with the HDTV technology itself, but that HDTV broadcasts are assigned to previously unused channel spectrum in each city. In this case, WFAA, which normally broadcasts on channel 8, will be using channel 9 for its HDTV. Juett said that, although patients were not endangered, it is a potentially serious problem. "Should there not be safeguards and backup plans," Juett said, "the potential is there that the staff could be distracted enough to allow a health care incident." The FCC was aware of potential interference problems when it assigned channels 7-13 and 14-46 for use by biomedical telemetry devices last October, and hospitals were warned that HDTV tests would soon be starting in major cities. According to FCC rules, it is the responsibility of health care facilities and medical device manufacturer to monitor potential interference problems, even if it means having to stop using the monitoring equipment involved. Biomedical telemetry devices are considered secondary devices, meaning priority for any part of the broadcast spectrum that they are assigned remains with broadcasters. FCC Rule 15, as amended last October, reads in part: "the operator of the biomedical telemetry device must accept whatever level of interference is received from other radio operations. The operator, i.e., the health care facility, is responsible for resolving any interference that occurs subsequent to the installation of these devices." Baylor University plans to purchase new monitors at a cost of $200,000 to avoid any future interference problems. FCC officials told Newsbytes they recognize the need to improve outreach to make sure health care facilities are aware of potential interference problems. Bruce Franca, deputy director of the FCC's Office of Engineering and Technology said, "We want to make sure health care facilities, medical device manufacturers, and the broadcast industry all use their resources to get the word out about the new assignment of TV channels in picking frequencies for biomedical telemetry devices." o~~~ O